Group Exposure Workshops for Socially Anxious Undergraduates

Conditions

• Public Speaking Anxiety
• Public Speaking Fear
• Social Anxiety Disorder
• Social Fear

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

18 Years - 30 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Group Exposure for Social Anxiety — BEHAVIORAL
  Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears.
• Self-Compassion Enhanced Group Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety — BEHAVIORAL
  Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears plus piloted exercises from the investigators' previous studies among socially anxious undergraduates (Slivjak et al., 2022; Slivjak \& Arch, in preparation), refined during the investigators' quality improvement project, that are designed to enhance compassion.
• Peer-Enhanced Group Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety — BEHAVIORAL
  Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears facilitated by a pair of doctoral student and undergraduate student co-facilitators who explicitly use appropriate self-disclosure to establish the co-facilitators as individuals with lived experiences of social anxiety and public speaking fears.
• Peer and Self-Compassion Enhanced Group Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety — BEHAVIORAL
  Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears plus piloted exercises from the investigators' previous studies among socially anxious undergraduates (Slivjak et al., 2022; Slivjak \& Arch, in preparation), refined during the investigators' quality improvement project, that are designed to enhance compassion. These groups are facilitated by a pair of doctoral student and undergraduate student co-facilitators who explicitly use appropriate self-disclosure to establish the co-facilitators as individuals with lived experiences of social anxiety and public speaking fears.

Study Details

The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of four versions of a workshop for social anxiety and public speaking stress. All participants are current University of Colorado Boulder undergraduate students. Participation in this research study lasts for approximately 8 weeks, and includes a pre-workshop questionnaire, 3 weekly workshop sessions (ranging from 2 to 3 hours each, including a 5-minute post-session questionnaire), a post-workshop questionnaire, and a 1-month follow-up questionnaire.

Key Dates

Start date

Jun 12, 2024

Status verified

May 2025

Primary completion

Oct 1, 2025

Completion

Oct 1, 2025

Study Design

Enrollment

200 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

FACTORIAL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Arms

• Active Comparator: Exposure Only
  Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears.
• Experimental: Compassion Enhanced
  Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears plus self-compassion exercises aimed at inducing a sense of common humanity.
• Experimental: Peer enhanced
  Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears facilitated by a pair of doctoral student and undergraduate student co-facilitators who will explicitly use appropriate self-disclosure to establish the co-facilitators as individuals with lived experiences of social anxiety and public speaking fears.
• Experimental: Fully enhanced
  Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears plus self-compassion exercises aimed at inducing a sense of common humanity, facilitated by a pair of doctoral student and undergraduate student co-facilitators who will explicitly use appropriate self-disclosure to establish the co-facilitators as individuals with lived experiences of social anxiety and public speaking fears.

Primary Outcome Measure

Attendance rate [ Time Frame: 3 weeks during the intervention (workshops 1, 2, and 3, 1 week apart) ]

Central Contacts

• Joanna Arch, PhD
  303.492.4634
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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